To this day, the most telling line from the entire Drake/Kendrick beef is from Drake's "Family Matters": Kendrick just opened his mouth / someone go give him a Grammy right now.
Like for a song where he's trying to build up all this bravado and like shit all over the competition, this line reeks. REEKS. of insecurity. This is the most bitch-made, schoolyard-ass thing Drake could have said. Like I don't know how anyone could have been hearing Drake's shit and seriously saying "yeah, he's cooking Kendrick alive, back to back him champagne papi!"
And there are a lot of bad lines from Drake, of course - bringing up Millie Bobby Brown unprompted when Kendrick just called him a blanket statutory rapist (speaking of which, that poor fucking girl having her name thrown around whenever Drake comes up is such a bummer for her), "you got your information from clowns/we fed you the information", all of that. But it really should have been over the second the Grammy line came up, because in this song where he's trying to clap back against Kendrick ripping him a new asshole, he explicitly proves Kendrick Lamar right in his assessment.
He's a petty, petulant, power-tripping clown. He always has been, and he'll probably continue to spiral into his basest, most unpleasant personal instincts as time goes on. And he doesn't even seem to realize in the moment just how badly he's telling on himself! That's the crazy part! Despite the self-centered contempt dripping from this line, you still had people glazing him pre-Not Like Us like he had a chance, when his showing was already tripping over its fucking feet!!!
It's like, everyone loves Not Like Us and Meet the Grahams, and they love shitting on The Heart pt 6 - and rightfully so. But for that entire stretch of time, I don't think I saw anyone bring up how pathetic it was that the #1 most streamed musician on Spotify - arguably the biggest music streaming platform ever made, which would make him one of the most quantifiably popular musicians in the world - was whining about being snubbed by the Grammys in a song that was meant to be disproving the notion that he's a conceited dickhead.
The Drake-glazing that went on during that beef was a dark fuckin day in music fandom imo. The fact that he can plain-facedly embody the exact issues that Kendrick was pointing out in his own diss, and then absolutely fizzle out after the world collectively called him a sex offender, and STILL have dudes try to say he won some sort of Moral Victory despite being an underhanded, backstabbing prick the entire fucking feud? There's no other way to phrase it. It was a dark day in music fandom. And it was clear from his second song that he didn't have the concrete foundation that Kendrick did for his own criticisms of Drake, and I feel like it isn't brought up enough. Drake's entire showing in that feud, from front to back, was clown shit. You could tell as early as Family Matters that he had nothing to go on, and you still have contrarians saying that Um Ackshually He Won The Beef.
Like no - let's be fucking real here. It was already over, even in those thirty minutes before Meet the Grahams dropped. Drake already showed his own ass. The whole go of it from Drake was just ass.
